Everyone knows I love a good party, and aside from occasionally, momentarily entertaining the thought of starting my own party planning business, when a friend mentions the word ‘party’, I’m all over it.  It’s bad, honestly, I mean, a friend told me last night that she was pregnant, and after my congratulatory squee, the first thing I said to her, was ‘I have dibs on your baby shower’ LOL!

So, when Magz informed me that the theme for my adorable little Goddaughter’s (yes, I may be biased but how can you argue with pictures like that?) birthday party was going to be ladybugs, I was on it in a heartbeat.  As always, I went straight to Pinterest and did some research and together, we threw a fan-dabi-dosy shindig that I simply MUST share!

Eve’s outfit was ADORABLE! We’ll start with her ladybug hair clip and her tutu, they were made by the lovely Lindsay over at Chicky Babe Creations and the T-shirt, was made by the newly discovered Polka Dot Pair (I found the shirt on Pinterest and Magz ordered it through her Facebook page).

My first attempt at making a wreath, it was pretty easy, relatively cheap (I used a 40% coupon at Hobby Lobby for the foam wreath, the tulle was on 40% off, the flowers came from the 99c store as part of a bunch and the bugs were pretty cheap in Michaels).

Favours came all the way from the fine state of Iowa, from my friend Amber the cookie lady (go here, for her blog on them).  They were DELICIOUS! And, as you can see, they were super cute!  As soon as she gets talked in to setting up a cookie-shop business, I’ll let y’all know!

Magz printed one photo from every month of Eve’s first year and ‘pegged’ them to a piece of ribbon and attached a bug (like those on my wreath) to each end.  It was amazing to see how much Eve has changed from month to month and from birth to 1 year old.

For food, Magz and Sam did a yummy bbq, but they had some snacks and sides that are worth noting.  Starting with the above ‘bug bites, Ritz crackers, cherry tomatoes, chives and a dip of your choice, creamy garlic, yoghurt and pesto, whatever flavours you’d like to add to the bites.  They are quick and easy to make and they definitely have a great ‘bug’ visual impact.

Red apples, a few spots of peanut butter and raisins (or, my preference, chocolate chips), another quick, tasty and relatively healthy snack and very cute – yes, I know I’m saying that a lot!

Chocolate ‘spots’ and a melted chocolate bug ‘head’ – easy and tasty!

One of my favourite parts of the party planning, though they were time consuming and a pain in the butt to make.  Next time, I’d use black melts (if they exist) but otherwise they were a hit, even with the birthday girl!

The cake is a work of art! Though all of Miss Emily’s cakes are EPIC! For those of you who haven’t seen, check out her giraffe cake here, for Magz’s baby shower, and her elephant cake here, for Heather’s baby shower.  I keep trying to talk her in to opening a cake shop, but she won’t hear of it!

Little Eve was spoiled rotten, and once she’d opened her presents, she wanted to play with all of them, all of the time! It was very cute 🙂

It was a FAB party, we played pass the parcel, enjoyed great food, great company and little Eve was surrounded by love, cake and toys!